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Koala_iceon Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas

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Koala_iceon China Has Three Reusable Rockets Ready for Their Debut Flights

That sounds like living amongst the ruins of the Roman Empire

Koala_iceon Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking

Two possibilities can be true at once. I look forward to seeing both

Koala_iceon Early Bronze Age Butchered Human Remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK

This was probably a tastier meal than you can get in Somerset now.

Koala_iceon The largest open-source dataset of car designs, including their aerodynamics

This is also available at https://caemldatasets.org/ with no access restrictions.

Koala_iceon Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds

I'm actually not bantering.

Koala_iceon Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all auto brands, study finds

I thoroughyl expect the Deparment of Government Efficiency to recommend U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) be shut down to save previous taxpayer dollars.

Koala_iceon Language is not essential for the cognitive processes that underlie thought

There's a lot of other interesting biology besides propagation of electrical signals. Examples include: 1/ Transport of mRNAs (in specialized vesicle structures!) between neurons. 2/ Activation and integration of retrotransposons during brain development (which I have long hypothesized acts as a sort of randomization function for the neural field). 3/ Transport of proteins between and within neurons. This isn't just adventitious movement, either - neurons have a specialized intracellular transport system that allows them to deliver proteins to faraway locations (think >1 meters).

Koala_iceon ARPA-H announces awards to develop novel technologies for precise tumor removal

https://arpa-h.gov/about/faqs

Koala_iceon Proteins in blood could provide early cancer warning 'by more than seven years'

But, you can get absolutely destroyed on life insurance and, just as critically, long-term care insurance. Genetic discrimination is perfectly legal in those domains.

Koala_iceon Elon Musk's Latest Robot Video Accidentally Gives Away the Magic Trick

It’s a multimillion dollar game of “Where’s Waldo”!

Koala_iceon Warner Bros shelves finished ‘Coyote vs. Acme’, takes $30M tax write-off

There is a moral imperative for some of these films to get leaked.

Koala_iceon Every phone should be able to run personal websites

I know it’s not a phone, but a few friends and I built this for the Newton MessagePad back in 1998-9 with exactly this vision.

Ref: http://npds.free.fr/

Koala_iceon Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world

The new HPC Graviton3E instances (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/hpc7g/) are pretty great for CFD and simulation workloads.

Koala_iceon Newton FAQ

Yes. I wrote the web server for it back in 1998. It was actually pretty cool since we also integrated a public "wall", calendar and contacts sharing, instant messaging, and even a federated discovery protocol for other Newton servers.

Koala_iceon How Computationally Complex Is a Single Neuron?

There's also evidence of mRNA transmission (packaged into capsids) between neurons!

Koala_iceon No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime (2019)

Some of my friends are implementing a blobchain using it.

Koala_iceon Casino-like apps have drained people of millions

They're talking about Robinhood, right?

Koala_iceon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)

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Koala_iceon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)